Introduction

Research analysis manifests clear trends of growing interest of the Computer Science students towards
e-learning. To keep this trend as well as the pace with the rapid advancement of software technologies, the
"Software Engineering Virtual Lab" has been developed.
This lab attempts to provide basic concepts to the students on a wide range of topics including
Requirements analysis, ER modeling, identification of domain classes, use-case diagrams and designing a
test suite. Ample illustrations and simulations are used to reinforce one's understanding. Once the
concepts are clear, a set of exercises given on the concerned topics would help the students to evaluate themselves
and their progress of learning. The main focus is to enable the students to interact with the "virtual"
teacher in an effective and efficient manner compared to how they would do in a real lab on the subject.

Objectives

The Software Engineering Virtual Lab has been developed by keeping in mind the following objectives:

To impart state-of-the-art knowledge on Software Engineering and UML in an interactive manner through the Web

Present case studies to demonstrate the practical applications of different concepts

Provide a scope to the students where they can solve small, real life problems

All the while it is intended to present Software Engineering as an interesting subject to the students where
learning and fun can go alongside.

Target Audience

This lab is suitable for undergraduate or postgraduate students having a course on Software Engineering.
An overview of Object-Oriented Programming would be helpful, although not manadatory. A little
familiarity with JavaScript is required to work on the experiment on "Designing test suite".

Relevant Courses

Rajasthan Technical University
The set of experiments specified here has an almost complete match with the
list of experiments prescribed for the "Software Engineering Lab" as part of the B. Tech. (Computer Engineering)
course offered by the Rajasthan Technical University.
Other Universities
Further, around 90% of the originally prescribed experiments would help to reinforce the learning on different
courses offered by many other Indian universities, some of which are listed below.

"Software Engineering" course offered for B.Tech. (IT) at West Bengal University of Technology

"Software Engineering" course offered for B.Sc. (CS) at Delhi University

System Requirements

You need a modern web browser with JavaScript enabled to access the complete set of features of Software
Engineering Virtual Lab. In particular, this lab has been tested and found to work successfully with

Firefox 3.6, 5.0

Google Chrome 13.0

Opera 11.0

Internet Explorer 7

Any higher version of the above mentioned four web browsers would also work fine. Moreover, any web browser using
modern versions of Gecko, WebKit rendering engines should be able to display properly and access all the features.